for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than five dollars.
27. The Governor in Council is authorized from time to time to notify by advertisement in the Hong-Kong Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly and whosoever after the expiration of the said specified time shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars.
28. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorized under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars.
29. The penalties specified in sections 27 and 28 shall be deemed to be cumulative, and not substituted penalties, in any case where the commission of any of the offences to which the same are applicable shall occasion a Nuisance within the meaning of this Ordinance.
Closing of Chinese Cemeteries.
Idem Sec: 3
Burial elsewhere.
Idem Sec: 4
Penalties in certain cases cumulative.
Idem Sec: 5
Removal of Infected persons.
30. Where any person is suffering from Small-pox or any other contagious or infectious disease and is without proper lodging or accommodation or is lodged in a tenement occupied by more than one family or is on board any ship or vessel a Magistrate may on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon or any other duly qualified Medical practitioner order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other like place as may be provided for the purpose.
31. All night-soil and urine shall vest in and become the absolute property of the Government night-soil Contractors for the time being and the disposal of it shall be subject to regulations to be made under this Ordinance. Provided, that the licensees of public latrines shall still be at liberty to dispose of the night-soil from latrines existing at the time of the passing of this Ordinance under the regulations in force at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, and that the owners of gardens in villages, may use on their own lands the waste products of their tenements if conveyed according to such regulations.
32. All householders within the City of Victoria shall provide themselves with suitable dust-boxes in accordance with a pattern deposited for the inspection of the public, at the District Police Stations in the city, and all the day's house-sweepings, ashes, offal, and refuse, shall be deposited in the dust-box, and in no place or receptacle other than the dust-box which shall be at all times maintained in due repair by the owner.
33. The keeping of pigs, goats, or cattle without a Licence from the Sanitary Board is hereby prohibited, and any person keeping such animals, either without a Licence from the Board or in a manner contravening such sanitary conditions as may be endorsed on such Licence, shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding $5, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days, and to forfeit all animals in respect of the keeping of which he has so offended.
PART II.
34. Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may by Proclamation from time to time, direct that the provisions contained in Sections 35 to 40 of this Ordinance both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony or such part thereof as by such Proclamation may be specified, and may from time to time revoke or renew any such Proclamation; and subject to such revocation and renewal every such Proclamation shall be in force for such period as in such Proclamation shall be expressed, and every such Proclamation shall be published in the Government Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
7 of 1883 Sec: 5.
Night-soil and urine shall property of the night-soil Contractors.
Idem Sec: 9
Householders to provide dust-boxes.
Idem Sec: 10
Keeping pigs, goats, or cattle.
Idem Sec: 11.
Proclamation of epidemic disease.
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